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Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) will enable sub-percent measurements of massive black hole parameters and provide access to the demographics of compact objects in galactic nuclei. During the LISA mission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-22 Shashwat Singh , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Christopher P. L. Berry , John Veitch

One of the central goals of LISA is the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of supermassive black holes. Contrary to stellar-mass black hole mergers, such events are expected to be rich X-ray sources due to the accretion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-09 Tito Dal Canton , Alberto Mangiagli , Scott C. Noble , Jeremy Schnittman , Andrew Ptak , Antoine Klein , Alberto Sesana , Jordan Camp

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are a key observational target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The waveforms may be affected by the astrophysical environment surrounding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Soumodeep Mitra , Nicholas Speeney , Sumanta Chakraborty , Emanuele Berti

Future space-borne gravitational-wave detectors will observe the gravitational waves in the milli-Hz. Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals with central supermassive black holes are very important sources that could provide the information of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Yu-Peng Zhang , Yan-Bo Zeng , Yong-Qiang Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Pau Amaro Seoane , Yu-Xiao Liu

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) (capture and inspiral of a compact stellar mass object into a Massive Black Hole (MBH)) are among the most interesting objects for the gravitational wave astronomy. It is a very challenging task to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-11 Yan Wang , Yu Shang , Stanislav Babak

The capture of compact objects by massive black holes in galaxies or dwarf galaxies will generate short gravitational wave signals, called extreme-mass-ratio bursts (EMRBs), before evolving into extreme-mass-ratio inspirals. Their detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Hui-Min Fan , Shiyan Zhong , Zheng-Cheng Liang , Zheng Wu , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

The inspirals of ``small'' ($1 - 100 M_\odot$) compact bodies through highly relativistic orbits of massive (several $\times 10^5 M_\odot -$ several $\times 10^6 M_\odot$) black holes are among the most anticipated sources for the LISA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott A. Hughes

We examine the electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational wave (GW) signatures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) spiraling into a supermassive black hole (extreme mass-ratio inspirals or EMRIs), embedded in a thin, radiation-pressure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Bence Kocsis , Nicolas Yunes , Abraham Loeb

One prominent model for quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) is that they originate from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) involving stellar-mass objects orbiting around massive black holes and colliding with their accretion disks. We compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Leif Lui , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Rudrani Kar Chowdhury , Lixin Dai

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals consist of binary systems of compact objects, with orders of magnitude differences in their masses, in the regime where the dynamics are driven by gravitational wave emission. The unique nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Two recent papers\citep{xmri1, xmri2} revealed that in our Galaxy there are very extreme-mass-ratio inspirals composed by brown dwarfs and the supermassive black hole at the center of the Galaxy. The event rates estimated in these papers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-22 Wen-Biao Han , Xing-Yu Zhong , Xian Chen , Shuo Xin

We compute gravitational waves from inspiraling stellar-mass compact objects on the equatorial plane of a massive spinning black hole (BH). Our inspiral orbits are computed by taking into account the adiabatic change of orbital parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 Ryuichi Fujita , Masaru Shibata

Intermediate mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of binary black holes with mass ratios $10^{-4}\lesssim q \lesssim 0.1$ are astrophysically interesting sources of gravitational waves. Mergers of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with…

We consider extreme mass ratio inspirals during which an electrically charged compact object with mass $m_p$ and the charge to mass ratio $q$ inspirals around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$. Using the Teukolsky and generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong

At the Galactic Centre, we can expect a population of a few tens of early extreme-mass ratio inspirals (E-EMRIs) and extremely large mass ratio inspirals (XMRIs). Depending on their evolutionary stage, they can be highly eccentric, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Pau Amaro Seoane , Shao-Dong Zhao

Extreme-mass-ratio bursts (EMRBs) are a class of potentially interesting gravitational wave signals. They are produced when a compact object passes through periapsis on a highly eccentric orbit about a much more massive object; we consider…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-22 C. P. L. Berry , J. R. Gair

Extreme mass ratio in-spirals (EMRIs) are candidate events for gravitational wave detection in the millihertz range (by detectors like LISA and eLISA). These events involve a stellar-mass black hole, or a similar compact object, descending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Jonathan Gair

Using an analytic, static, and spherically symmetric metric for a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a dark matter (DM) halo with the Hernquist-type profile, we derive analytic expressions for the orbital period and precession of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Ning Dai , Yungui Gong , Yang Zhao , Tong Jiang

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the primary targets of future space-based gravitational-wave observatories, such as LISA, TianQin, and Taiji. Active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks provide a gas-rich environment in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 LingQin Xue , Zoltán Haiman , Hiromichi Tagawa , Imre Bartos

We investigate the detectability and waveform systematics of sub-solar mass intermediate mass-ratio inspirals (SSM-IMRIs), characterized by mass ratios $q \sim 10^2-10^4$. Using the black hole perturbation theory surrogate model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Devesh Giri , Bhooshan Gadre